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- Microsoft puts more Azure cloud plumbing in place
- Microsoft is continuing to lay the groundwork for the commercial version of its Azure cloud environement, rolling out a new content delivery network CDN capability, as well as the November update to its Azure developer services. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Asus to launch Eee e-book reader in 2009; MSI mulling move over
- Asustek plans to launch an e-book reader under its popular Eee brand by the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company president Jerry Shen. In a brief DigiTimes report, Micro-Star International -- known as MSI to the rest of us --...
- Tags: ASUS, Content Delivery, E-book Reader, Netbook, MSI, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Digital Publisher Creates New Business Opportunities for Online Content Delivery
- Bondi Digital Publishing, based in New York City, has built a reputation for innovative, user-friendly digital content delivery. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Vertigo, Bondi developed an innovative new Web delivery solution based on the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in. Bondi has used its new solution to build online Web...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Microsoft Corp., Digital Content, Bondi Digital Publishing
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Is Cisco ready to pounce on the CDN market?
- Cisco may be pondering a move into the content delivery network market. According to a report in the Business of Online Video, it appears that Cisco has been acquiring colocation space at third party data centers for a content delivery network CDN. Cisco has its own CDN,...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Leading TV and Online Sports Broadcaster Raises the Bar With Microsoft Silverlight
- Founded in 1992 and based in London, Setanta Sports is a leading Internet and pay-TV sports broadcaster, operating channels in the U.K., Ireland, North America, and Australia. Setanta wanted to evolve its Web-based streaming media service to deliver new levels of subscriber satisfaction. But to accomplish that, Setanta needed much...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Content Delivery, Microsoft Corp., TV, Broadcaster, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- Microsoft, Amazon take different paths to cloud caching
- Amazon and Microsoft, two of the leaders in the evolving cloud-services space, are offering customers a number of wares that -- at least on the surface -- sound similar. But in the area of caching, the paths of the two providers are diverging. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Content Delivery, Velocity, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., CloudFront, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Amazon launches CloudFront; Content delivery network margins go kaboom
- Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched CloudFront, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network. The move is likely to accelerate already brutal pricing in the content delivery network market, which includes Akamai and Limelight Networks among others. CloudFront's biggest feature is that there are no up-front commitments and long-term...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Amazon.com Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., CloudFront, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 5: Content Delivery and Distribution Network Design
- Discover the methods for content delivery and distribution of Web-based media in the Web 2.0 world. The concept of Web caches has existed as long as the Web and evolved from storage of frequently accessed files on an individual's personal computer or proxy server to Internet-based Web cache servers provided...
- Tags: Web, Network, Content Delivery, Network Design, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet
- White papers 2008-11-11
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixationPlease clarify.I don't understand your conclusion.Quoting:What Google, and all of us, most need to do is work that problem, finding business models through which content owners can profit while the end-to-end integrity of the search-and-find Internet is preserved.That will break the link between the content...
- Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Google Inc., content delivery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Amazon to offer content delivery service.
- Amazon has made it official. Content delivery networks are officially a commodity. The company said today that, by the end of the year, it will launch a new service to distribute content with low latency and high data transfer rates. According to the company's web services blog,...
- Tags: Developer, Content Delivery, Amazon.com Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Timely delivery for perishable content
- Brian Shield, CIO for The Weather Channel, describes the challenges of delivering ever-changing weather updates to users on a variety of content delivery platforms. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Content Delivery, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Short clip: The Weather Channel: Timely delivery for perishable content
- Brian Shield, CIO for The Weather Channel, describes the challenges of delivering ever-changing weather updates to users on a variety of content delivery platforms.
- Tags: Content Delivery, Brian Shield
- Videos 2008-08-19
- NewsView 1.2 (Windows)
- Be connected to all the breaking news from numerous trusted news sources like CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press AP, Reuters, MTV, NHL, AFP, and HowStuffWorks, straight to your desktop with NewsView. NewsView is a free desktop content delivery application that provides real-time access to news, weather, and...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Microsoft Windows, BIA Information Network, NewsView 1.2, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-22
- DOH: A Content Delivery Peer-to-Peer Network
- Many SMEs and non-profit organizations suffer when their Web servers become unavailable due to flash crowd effects when their web site becomes popular. One of the solutions to the flash-crowd problem is to place the web site on a scalable CDN Content Delivery Network that replicates the content and distributes...
- Tags: Network, Content Delivery, P2P, Swedish Institute Of Computer Science, Peer To Peer (P2P), Web Site Development, Internet
- White papers 2008-01-01
- A Transport Layer for Live Streaming in a Content Delivery Network
- Streaming media on the internet has experienced rapid growth over the last few years and will continue to increase in importance as broadband technologies and authoring tools continue to improve. As the internet becomes an increasingly popular alternative to traditional communications media, internet streaming will become a significant component of...
- Tags: Content Provider, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, Akamai Technologies Inc., Streaming Media, Live Streaming, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- BitGravity challenges Akamai and Limelight
- After months in stealth mode gathering marquee customers, BitGravity officially launched its content delivery network. BitGravity co-founder and CEO Perry Wu claims that his CDN delivers superior service to the incumbents, notably Akamai and Limelight. Companies such as YouTube, Sling Media, Revision 3, Getty Images and the...
- Tags: Content Delivery, Video, Akamai Technologies Inc., BitGravity, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-30
- Cisco Accelerates Delivery of 'Any Stream to Any Screen' With Adobe Flash Streaming Enhancements to the Cisco Content Delivery System
- Adobe Flash Media Server 3 wanted to expand the Flash ecosystem and wanted to continue to offer their customers more deployment options. Cisco and Adobe Systems Incorporated implemented the Cisco Content Delivery System CDS which will be the first system of its type to natively support Adobe Flash streaming capabilities,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Content Delivery, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Case studies 2007-09-06
- A Branch-and-Cut Algorithm for Design of MPLS Content Delivery Networks
- Content Delivery Network CDN can be applied to improve effectiveness and robustness of Internet in an economical manner. This paper presents an optimization problem of replica server location of a CDN. Most of previous papers on CDNs focus on connectionless techniques. This paper assumes that CDN is located in MPLS...
- Tags: Algorithm, MPLS, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network
- White papers 2007-03-13
- The VeriSign Intelligent CDN: A Managed Service Offering Secure, Highly Scalable Internet Rich Media Delivery at Lower Cost
- Many content providers use Content Delivery Networks CDNs, which are a collection of servers in distributed data centers, to make rich media available to online consumers. Although a traditional CDN can help accelerate rich media delivery and mitigate the cost of infrastructure to the content provider, to fulfill the increasing...
- Tags: Internet, Content Delivery, Content Delivery Network, VeriSign Inc., Rich Media
- White papers 2007-01-29
- QuoteTrax 1 (Windows)
- QuoteTrax is an innovative software application that enables the creation, automation, and tracking of your mission critical selling documents. Tightly integrated with Microsoft Word, and Excel this personalized content delivery solution automates the creation of proposals, letters, and responses. You may create as many proposals with QuoteTrax to address the...
- Tags: Document, Content Delivery, Microsoft Windows, QuoteTrax, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Sales, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2006-08-24
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